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The Therapeutic Community—Concept, Practice and Future

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

D. H. Clark
D. H. Clark*
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Fulbourn Hospital, Cambridge
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The last twenty years have seen the rise and dominance in institutional psychiatry of a remarkable notion—“the therapeutic Community”. It is both an attitude and a method, a system of treatment and a battle cry, a charm and a password. I have been fortunate to take some part in applying this notion to one part of the field of inpatient psychiatric treatment and have attempted, while doing so, to study the effects of what we did.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 111 , Issue 479 , October 1965 , pp. 947 - 954
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1965 

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